Designating, recording, and registering apparatus.



. E. J. BRANDT. DESIGNATING, RECORDING, AND REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED-MAR. 30, 1907.-

atented Aug. 16, 1910.

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APPLICATION IILED MAR. 30, 1907:

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30, 1907.

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EDWARD .r. BRANDT, or .warnnrown; Wisconsin, nssrenba TO BRANDT oasnmn.

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To all whom it may concern: v i

Be it known that. I, EDWARD J. BRANDT,

a citizen of the United States, and resident vide for recording sales in a mercantile es- .tablishment, as well as to provide for automatic registration of the sum total money value of successively recorded sales; said invention consisting of what is herein shown, describedcind claimed as pertaining to a peculiar indicator-sheet and a machine employed in conjunction with a succession of 'punched indicator-sheets, one at a time,

to record predesignated sale amounts on sales tickets, or to register sum total money.

value of a succession of cashtransactions ,or

both, each punched indicator-sheet being of itself a permanent sale record.

Figure-'1 of the accompanying drawings represents a vertical longitudinal section view of a combined recording and registering machine in whichto utillze punched indicator-sheets successively, each of said -sheetsproperly positioned in the machine being the means governing a recordingor registering operation or both of the machine, said view being indicated by line 1-1 in Fig. 4; Fig. 2, a plan view. of the machine having casing portions thereof in horizontal section, as-indicated by lines 2-2 in Fig. 1;- Fig. 3, 2. Ian view of the machine partly in horizonta section as indicated by lines 3--3 in Fig. Figs. 4 and 5 transverse sectional views of the machine rpspectively indicated by lines H and 5+5 1n Fi 1, the figures thusfa'r beingon a reduc scaleas compared tothat of the machine. itself ';jFi'g. 6,

'a partly sectional view illustrating a full size slip-clutch detail in the register-mechanism of the machine; Fig. 7, a face view of a full-size combined spur andregisterwheel in said mechanism, Fig. 8, a side elevation partly in section illustratingthe rel-' ative arrangement ofmultiplyin'g wheels in the aforesaid mechanism; Fig. 9, :1 Ian view of a full size punched indicator-s ieet, and Fig. 10,- a sales-ticket after treatment 5 of same in the machine, this ticket having Specification of Letters Patent. 1' Patent Application filed March 30, 1907. Serial No; 365,438.

Aug. 16, 1910.

been originally an appendix of the indi catoresheet from which it is torn on a line of perforations. 7 l

. Referring by letter .to the drawings, A indicates one ofthe aforesaid; indicatorsheets, the face of which is arbitrarily spaced, this spacing being preferably a display of characters of the Arabic notation" in columns longitudinally. of the sheet at regular recurring intervals, which characters in each column are likewise at regularly reeurring'fintervals 'in ascending order. beginning with the "cipher, and reading from right to left transversely of said sheet, as it appears in Fig. 9, said columns of numerical said notation beginning with units.

.70 characters .being in the ascending order of Asla 'matter'ofconvenience, in practi ee, each indicator-sheet may be orlgmallymsx tegral, with the blank 'of a sales-ticket B such as'ish'ere'in shown by Fig. 10, in con dition for delivery to the buyerof goods in dicated t-hreon said sheet and ticket having been parted on a dividingline ofperforations;

The aforesaid machine comprises a frame having a'base C, side-standards D and an end-p ece E suit-ably connected. Arranged on the base C are spacers F and a suitably The perforations in the aforesaid plate match those of adie-platel set in the framebase O flush with the top of same, said base being slotted'underi the. die-plate. 'lheper forations of theplates G, I, guide the de pending pinsof perforatin punches J here-.,

inafter more particularly escribed, and in their descent. s'ai'd pinsfcross a space providedibetween the-frame-base C and plate G aforesaid, this space being open at one side of-the machine for the introduction of a sales-ticket or other device in which to punch a record. The space opening. is preferably flaring to facilitate the .device in the machine.

The side-standards D of the aforesaid frame, and the rails H parallel'to sameare provided with verticalrecesses and counterplacing of therecord sunk sockets, therecesses being lapped by Y rails H, as best shown in Fig. are heads of t in normal position, the innermost 'punch' of.

the punches J, these punches being 'longitu-' dinally' slotted, and strung,-in series of 'ten, onslats 2', which slats are connected at their ends to legs 7' of a series of toothed bars'K, which legs are stood upon the plate G afore-L.

said and are of a distance apart equalto the shown in Fig. .1, the arrangement of these aggregate width of a series of perforating punches viewed in side elevation, as clearly punches being similar to the characters in a column on the indicator-sheet. =1 Each bar K,

whether toothed or otherwise, its legs 9' and, 1 the slate' in connection with the legs are collectively a rack and so designated hereinafter. The slot in'each punch is of sufficient length to permit a vertically reciprocative play of said punch when the head of same is in register with one of the bridge-'- pins aforesaid, and the several racks being each series is thus registered. Theseveral punches in each serles correspond to the characters of the notation aforesaid, the

cipher-punch being innermost and the others" in regular order of progression from-one to nine outward from said cipher-punch, as indicated by numerical characters in igs. 1'

and 3.

The bar of each rack is providedwith a stop-lug I0 normally opposed by a counterweighted trip-bar L in pivotal suspension from the top of the main casingM of the mas chine, and the' heads of .all the cipherhereinafter.

punches are normally in line under anims "pact-end of a rocker-frame N loose on a rod fastened at its cxtremitiesin the side standards of the main-frame, a lug of a lever-arm m, of the rocker-frame being in ,the path of a crank O to which further reference is had The casing M is provided with a guide-slot for the lug-of said lever-arm.

iOne leg of each rack is connected to an end of a spiral-spring P that has its other end connected to a hook-pin (if a drum Q fast on a spindle "having its bearings in the side standards of the main-frame. The other leg of each rack is connected by. a cord or other flexible device a and a'spiral-spring It to eyes with which the end-piece E of the mainframe is provided. The flexible device is trained on a sheave 0 mounted in an end -recess'of the'ba-se ofsaid frame and the spring R resists pull of the spring P aforesaid. Fast on the spindle of the drum Q is a. spurpinion S in mesh witha spur-gear sector T rigid on a spindle. 0 extending from the crank O and having-its bearings in. the side standards of the main frame.

Over the trip-bars L aforesaid, the top-0f the casing M is provided with parallel rows of apertures, nine in each row over the same trip-bar as shown in Fig. 1,, at regularly recurring intervals apart, and these a er-' tures are in 'Tegister .with correspon in ,apertures in an angular plate U fastene d on said casing to therewith form a chamber having a preferably flaring opening .its

shown in Fig. 1, the spacin of said aper tures being similar to theco umns and*nu-' merals 1 to 9 in each on the indicator-sheet.

The. plate-U is providedwith guide-posts p engaging spiral-springs g that opposeeyelu s r of an auxiliary-casingM theselugs being. provided with; vertical slots enga ed by stop-lugs s of said p0sts,;'whereby -p ay of the auxiliary casing'is limited in opposite directions. Guided in the apertures of the plate U, "and in the bottom and apartition,

of the auxiliary-casing M are spr' -controlled pins t'movable downward wit said' auxiliary-ca'sing to depress trip-barsL and come in the pa'ths of rack-bar lugs 70, except as prevented by an "indicator-sheet laid-1n the space between the main-casing and plate U aforesaid. The auxiliary casing is pressed downby the operator of the machine against the resistance of the springs Q and returned. to normal position by said springs on re-" moval of the pressure.

The amount of a sale is primarily record-f ed'by punching out characters in columns of an indicator-sheet For instance, if the sale amounts to one dollar and twenty-five cents, the characters 1, 2 and 5 respectively" of the hundreds, tens and units columns of the indicator-sheet are punched out, as shown in Fig. 9, and the detail of the sir-lei.

may be indicated bywriting on a sales ticket B after which said sheet and, ticket are properly inserted in the. machine, the

sheet in the space under the plate U and the ticket in the space under the plate G of said machine. The indicator-sheet is put in the "machine. display side uppermost" and nine' end first, allthe character and punch-holes in said sheet, excepting those of the cipher-.

row, being-then in' register with the pinszt 1n the auxiliary frame aforesaid. The salesticket is also put in said machine, displayside uppermost, to have the broad transverse margin thereof in register withthe cipherpunches and guide-apertures for the pins ofsame. -The auxiliary casing is now pressed down, and the spring-controlled pins therewith'in re ist'er with thepunch-holesinthe indicator-s eet will descend through said holes to depress corresponding trin-hars T.

and thus release the relative racks, the remaining pins being held back by said indicator-sheet. The crank O is now actuated i in the proper direction and the result is a pull'of the released racks as far as the pins holding down trip-arms will permit thus bringing punches corresponding to the holes in the indicator-sheet under the impact-end of the rocker-frame N, and thereafter said crank,\acting' on the lever-arm m of said rocker-frame, causes a depressionof all the punches in registerwith the heads of the bridge-pins f, whereby corresponding numerical characters are punched in the sales ticket to permanently record the amount of sale predesig'nated-by punching of 'said indicator-sheet, such a result being's'hown in Fig. 10, where thesales-ti'eket appears per- "forated to record a sale amounting to one dollar and twenty-five 'cents in the order of units, tens, hundreds. It is intended that the indicator-sheet shall be retained asa permanent record of the amount of the sale, and that the sales-ticket shall bedelivered to the customer with the goods pur-' chased, it being preferable to corres ndiugly number said sheet and ticket'to acili- 'tate future comparison of same.

In mesh with the toothed bar K of each rack is a spur-wheel V, and all these spurwheels'V are loose on an arbor W that has its bearings in the side-standards of the main-frame of the machine, oneend of said arbor being squared for the engagement of a turning-key or crank. Thespur-wheels V are shown provided with elongated hubs by which they are suitably spaced on' their supporting-arbor, and said wheels are in the order of .units-,-'tens, etc. Fast-on the same arbor is a spur-wheel X of a gear-train comprising similar wheels severally fast upon- .other suitably arranged rotary arbors parallel to each other and the one W aforesaid, said arbors being in the order of units, tens, etc.

The units spur-wheel has slip-clutch connection with a hollow units register-wheel Y, loose on the same arbor and provided witha tappet'u alined' with thecipher-eharacter-of said register-wheel, thistappet be- I ingengageable,'once in each revolution, with one of ten suitably "spaced notches of another register-wheel Z loose on the tens-arbor, and likewise this tens-arborunitsrregisterswheel multiplies onto another'units register-wheel loose on the hundreds-arbor, the notches of each multiplying-wheel being alined with the numerical characters of same. This units register-mechanisxnmay be continued indefinitely, in practice. The tens, hundreds and other loose spur- .wheelspn the units-arbor W are respectively in gear-train with spur-wheels loose on the "arbors in the ascending order of tens, hundreds, etc. above specified, and-each of the latter spur-wheels is in slip-clutch -connec-.

tion with a register-wheel similarto theone Y andwhich multiplies onto another such wheel upon the next arbor, that may in turn (as shown in all but one-instance) multiply onto another suitably .arranged register wheel and so on, indefinitely. i

To revent overrunning or back-lash of the register-wheels, detents 'v are employed in connection with the top of the machinecasing M to engage the notches of said wheels, as shown in Fig. 1, and the casing top is suitab y apertured to provide for viewing said register-wheels, the ciphercharacter;of each Wheel being normally at the view aperture. The detail of the slip-clutch connection of spur and register-wheels is shown in- Fig.

6, a spring-controlled dog w in pivotal con nection withv the spur-wheel hub being in engagement with one of a series of ten ratchet-teeth equi-distant apart on the inside of the register-wheel. Each of the register-' mechanism arbors is provided with a camgl'oove as longitudinally thereof, and each register-wheel is provided with a side-housing 3/ for a spiral-spring a controlling a "stop-pin z engageable with the cam-groove of the corresponding arbor, this detail being clearly shown in Fig. 8. The springcontrolled stop-pin of each register-wheel does not interfere with the step-by-step rotary movement of said wheel, but ifthe corresponding arbor be turned, in the roper direction, its engagement with said pin will serve to bring the cipher-character of the said wheel to normal position, in. one revo "that a registration of the money value of each sale is accomplished, asa result of movement on the part of racks above specified, these racks being returnedito normal position by recoil ofsprings in connection therewith, after release of pressure on the auxiliary casing aforesaid, and the arrangement of the register-wheels is such that those tipleof cents for which the registe -mech anism is designed, in order to fa ilitate indicating tens of cents are'all on one arbor,

casting up of the total registration" of the; machine at any time. In taking 01? the total Y amount registered, the amount'indicated by. 1

the units register-wheel for cents is first V noted, the unit of the sum indicated by. the

controlled as to operation by means of said herein shown.

register instead register-wheels for tens of cents next noted to the left of the previous notation and the tens of this sum, if. such there be, carried over into the addition ofthe sum indicated by the registerwheels for hundreds of cents, the unit of the latter sum noted to the left of that for tensof cents and so on until the sum indicated-bythe register-wheels for the highest numerical order of cents is noted in. full .to the left of the previous notations, the reading of all the notations, being the grand total in cents, anddecimally dollars and cents of the registration by the machine in which recording and registering operations are predetermined by snitably'punched indicatorsheets. I a

.Va-rious changes of detail in the machine may be made Without departure from my invention as pointed out in the claims of this specification, it being understood that said machine may be restricted to a recorder or of a-combination of both as I claim: i v 1. A machine provided with spaces for the reception of a perforated indicatorsheet,

and a sales-ticket, independent recording de- 'vlcesadw'stable 1n series, means governing predetermmed release and stopof any one or all of said series of recording devices and indicator-sheet lodged in the space therefor aforesaid, and means permitting and controlhnga reciprocat on of'ahned recordingv devices of the several series-m opposltion to said sales-ticket arranged in the space'provided for the same.

2. A machine provided with spaces for the reception of a perforated indicator-sheet and a sales-ticket, independent recordingdevices adjustable. in series, means governing predetermined release and stop of any one or all of said series of recording devices and-com trolledas to operation by means of said ind1catorshcet lodged 1n the space therefor aforesaid, means permitting and controlling a reciprocation of, almed recording devices of the several series in opposition to said '5 sales-ti'c ket arranged in the space provided for the same, and a registering mechanism operative lncldental to 'adpistments of the I "various series of recording devices aforesaid.

3. A machine comprising a series of movable racks, recording devices in series on suitable guides and each series movable with a correspondlng' .rack, spring-controlled yielding bridges constituting parts of the guides lII POSItiOII tp oppose alined recording devices of the several series, a rotary drum, a ,pull spring connectingeach rack Wltll the dr'nm,'.a back-draw sprmg also connectedto each rack, means by which the several racks are locked in normal position, means governing predetermined release and stop of any one or all of said racks, and

means for impacting recording devices in register with said bridges.

4. A machine comprising a series of movable racks, suitably controlled pivotal 'trip-' bars arranged to normally resist propulsion of the racks, recording devices in series on suitable guides and each series movable with a corresponding rack, spring-controlled" temporarily. supported in the machine "to ob-- struct'descentof all the pins aforesaid not in registerwith a punch-hole or holes of said sheet, the unobstructed pin or pins serving to move a corresponding trip-bar or bars out of-normal position and limit propulsion of a corresponding rackor racks.

5. A-machine comprising a series of mov able racks, suitably controlled pivotal tripbar's arranged "to normally resist propulsion of the racks, recording-devices in series on suitable guides and each series movable with a corresponding .rack, spring-controlled yielding. bridges constituting parts .of-the guides 1n position to oppose alined recording devices of the several series, means for propelling and retracting the racks and recording devices therewith, means for impacting the recording devices in register. withsaid bridges, multiple register mechanisms in gearwith the racks, and a reciprocating device carrying spring controlled reciprocative pins in' series registered with guide apertures over the trip-bars; in combination with a punchedindicator-sheet temporarily supported in the machine toobstruct descent of all the pins aforesaid not in register with a punch-hole or holes of said sheet, the unobstructed pins serving to move a corresponding trip-bar or bars out of normal position and limit propulsion of a corresponding rack or racks. v a

6. A machine comprising a series of racks and mechanism controlled by same, a rotary drum, spiral-springs connecting the racks and drum, means normally holding the racks against draw of said springs, means for predetermined release of any rack or racks and for variously limiting the propulsion of' same, and other springs in connection with said racks contrary to those aforesaid.-

7 A machine comprising independent recording devices adjustable in series, means whereby the several series of recording de' vices'ar'e locked in normal p'ositionfmea'ns governing predetermined release of any one "or all: of said series, independent spring-i yielding bridges constituting parts of the pelling and retracti the racks and record- 1 of said controlled yielding supports for alined recording devices of the several series, and

an impactor for said devices in register with on another arbor and so on up to the highest multiple of the unit, means whereby all turned to normal position; and a punched indicator-sheet engageable with the machine to determine an operation of any one or more of said mechanisms. V

95A machine of the character described provided with a space fortherecepti'on of a perforated entry sheet and a space for the reception of a sales ticket, a recording mechanism comprising a plurality of recording devices controlled as to selection and alinement by means of said entry sheet lodged in the space therefor aforesaid, and

means for actuating said recording devices wheels may be simultaneously re to effect the operation of the same upon said sales ticket arranged in the space provided for the same. 1

10. A machine of the character described provided with a space for the reception of a perforated entry sheet and with a space,

for the reception of a sales ticket, a recording'mechanism comprising a plurality of recording devices controlled as; to selection and alinement by means of said entry sheet lodged in the space therefor aforesaid, means for actuating said recording devices to effect an operation of the same upon said sales ticket arranged in the space provided for the same, and a registering mechanism cooperative with said recording mechanism.

In testimony that I" claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin in the presence of tWo Witnesses. 45

EDVVAR'D J. BRANDT.

'vVitnesses:

N. E. OLIrHAN'r, GEORGE FELBER. 

